Cybersecurity
Protect Your People with DNS Filtering
A smart cybersecurity stack is built on layers. By providing multiple checkpoints in milliseconds, these layered solutions are critical to protecting your employees from malicious cybercriminals. A new security report from DNSFilter shows how harmful web content can cause unnecessary disruptions to your organization, and put your servers, endpoints, and sensitive data, at risk. Thrive’s DNS web filtering service, powered by DNSFilter, adds a strong outer layer to our customers’ cybersecurity stack. It enables you to block inappropriate content from reaching your employees’ computers and prevent any unwanted risk from creeping in.
The average user is likely to encounter 5 malicious queries per day—or 1,825 every year.
According to the DNSFilter 2024 Annual Security Report, users access roughly 5,000 DNS queries per day and for every ~1,000 queries more than one of them is likely to be malicious.
The cybersecurity landscape is constantly changing, with threats increasing every day. The Annual Security Report also found that:
- Malware traffic is up 40% and growing
- Phishing traffic increased by 106%
- Cryptojacking is up over 300% in 2023
- Fake cryptocurrency & NFT scams are still rampant
What Is DNS Filtering?
DNS filtering is a web filtering solution that uses a domain name system to block and filter malicious websites and content from reaching your company-managed networks. This includes any harmful or inappropriate web content on the internet. Using DNS filtering as part of your security defense can help ensure that your company and employee’s data remains secure and gives you control over what your employees are able to access online. With over 12 million threats blocked daily, DNSFilter is a proven web monitoring and filtering solution that is the ideal fit for Thrive customers.
What Is the Domain Name System?
A Domain Name System (DNS) matches up domain names, such as thrivenextgen.com, to a series of IP addresses, allowing those IP addresses to access the domain. No web content is able to load without the user’s IP address being checked first. Once scanned and approved, the web content will load as normal.
How Does DNS Filtering Protect My Organization?
By preemptively scanning and blocking any website with potentially malicious or harmful content from being accessed by users in your network, DNS filtering takes the guesswork out of managing site access through its zero-trust approach.
With DNS filtering, your organization can:
- Stop potential cyber threats in its tracks before it reaches your network
- Insights into what types of sites or cyber threats may try to impact your network
- Overall increased work productivity due to blocked time-wasting websites
- Reporting on what sites and applications your employees are visiting the most
- Maintain CMMC and other compliance standards for your industry
How Thrive Can Help
Today more than ever, it’s important to monitor the web interactions made on your network to keep it safe. Thrive’s Secure DNS Service utilizes DNSFilter, so you can feel confident and in control of your network. Secure DNS is available as part of Thrive’s cybersecurity bundle, which leverages best-in-class technologies to deliver a layered end-user security solution that helps prevent ransomware, data exfiltration, and social engineering attacks. Contact Thrive today to learn more about how we can optimize your web filtering services with DNS Filter.